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I was getting ready for bed at approximately midnight, as I was walking to my sliding glass door to lock it I noticed a light reflecting on top of the trees and trailers next door moving quickly. ( I live in a stilted house with a raised deck that overlooks my neighbors) I said to myself out loud “what the hell is that”. I thought at first a large bird had flown so close to the glass that it distorted the light but immediately realized that this was impossible. I opened my door and stepped out onto my deck just in time to see this gigantic flying chevron or wing heading north and ascending at the same time. The only reason I could tell it was a flying object was because the lights were uniform in size a distance between them and in between the lights the actual stars were blocked out. I felt it was cloaked to blend into the night sky because the lights looked like the surrounding stars. There was no sound and I watched as the object simply disappeared into the night sky. It looked as if it went through a wormhole or a tear in the fabric of space. I can’t quantify the size exactly but it was larger that a 747 and relative to the size actually seemed to move slow as I watched it fly away. I was so mesmerized that I am not sure exactly how long I watched it but it could not have been more than 10 or 15 seconds. I have longed believed that we are not alone in the universe and have always wished to see something but felt the odds were astronomical but my excitement at seeing this was so amazing I couldn’t wait to tell my husband and son. I am truly a believer now. I wished I had just stepped out a few seconds or a minute sooner so I could have watched longer or been able to film this phenomenon. Note: The above image is a rendering,

On August 12, 1983, 77-year-old Alfred Burtoo was enjoying some fishing in the Basingstoke Canal in Aldershot, Hampshire, United Kingdom. He was a keen and experienced fisherman, and since the weather report predicted a warm, fine night, he set off from his home in North Town, Aldershot, at 12:15 a.m., accompanied by his dog Tiny. On reaching Government Road he headed toward his fishing site, about 120 yards north of the Gasworks Bridge. Because of its many military establishments Aldershot is known as “The Home of the British Army,” and Alfred Burtoo himself had an Army background, having served in the Queen’s Royal Regiment in 1924 and the Hampshire Regiment during World War II. Well known as a historian, he had in his time worked as a farmer and gardener, and while living in the Canadian outback hunted bear and fought wolves. Prior to his experience he had read no books or magazines on the subject of UFOs, which held no interest for him, yet much of what he claimed has been corroborated by other witnesses. After getting comfortable, his concentration on the water was interrupted by a bright light descending from the sky. Whatever this was, it landed not too far away from Burtoo. There was a Mod base in the vicinity, and he thought maybe he had seen a helicopter land. Burtoo had just poured himself a cup of tea, when his dog Tiny became very nervous. Two beings suddenly appeared out of the darkness. “They were about four foot high, dressed in pale green coveralls from head to foot,” Burtoo told reporters. “and they had helmets of the same color with a visor that was blacked out.” The two beings beckoned for him to follow them. He obliged. Burtoo would later say that he was afraid of nothing, and regarding his encounter, which would have terrified most people, said: “What did I have to fear? I’m seventy-eight now and haven’t got much to lose.” Burtoo followed the two strange beings until they arrived at a flying saucer that had set on the ground. He ascended the stairs leading up to the craft until he could go no further. The ceiling was too short and he had to bend over to continue. He was now inside of a black, metallic chamber. The room had a foul smell, like decaying meat. “I did not see any signs of nuts or bolts, nor did I see any seams where the object had been put together,” he recalled. “What did interest me most of all was a shaft that rose up from the floor to the ceiling. The shaft was about four feet in circumference, and on the right-hand side stood two forms similar to those that walked along the towpath with me.” The curious old fisherman was then instructed to stand underneath an orange light. This light seemed to scan his body for several minutes. “What is your age?” asked one of the beings, in a voice which sounded like “a mixture of Chinese and Russian”. When he told them his age, he was told that he could go. He was told he was too old and sick for their purposes. Burtoo then walked out of the ship, down the stairs and back to this fishing spot. “The first thing I did was to pick up my cold cup of tea and drink it,” he recalled. “…then I heard this whining noise, just as if an electric generator was starting up, and this thing lifted up then took off at a very high speed. I got into what I had come out for…the fishing!” He would later tell newsmen that it was one of the greatest experiences of his life. There was no physical evidence of the crafts landing, and no marks of any kind on Burtoo. He did experience some loss of appetite and weight loss as well as some difficulty sleeping, but that passed after a short time. Burtoo was the only witness, and we may have to take his word, as he was not given to making up stories, and had no reason to perpetuate a hoax. He gained nothing from his experience except being in the local papers. Despite Mr Burtoo having passed away on August 31st, 1986, with almost religious regularity the local news papers write an abbreviated story about Mr.Burtoo’s encounter each year to coincide with the anniversary of this now famous encounter. His wife, Majorie, was asked if he had every confessed to her that the encounter was a hoax. She vehemently denied that Burtoo lied…”what Alf told you was the absolute truth. My friend who was with me when Alf came home can verify what he said. He looked absolutely shaken and he told both of us about his experience that he had with the UFO….”Omar Fowler, chairman of the Surrey Investigation Group on Aerial Phenomena, which includes pilots and scientists among its members, added: “This is really an exciting case. I believe it to be genuine.” – The National Enquirer, July 17, 1983
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At 2 o’clock in the morning of November 4, 1957, at Fort Itaipu, located near Santos, São Paulo, Brazil, two guards were stationed atop of the highest observation tower facing the ocean when they observed a very intense bright orange light in the sky. At first, they thought it was a star with increased brightness for some unknown reason. Then they realized it was an object coming down at high speed, directly over the fort. At about 1,000 feet (305 meters) above them, the object reduced speed and slowly continued to descend noiselessly until it suddenly stopped and hovered at about 50 meters over the guards. At this altitude, the sentinels were able see the shape of the UFO, which was circular, with an apparent diameter of 100 feet and with an orange glow. The guards were afraid, and did not react. Each was armed with a submachine gun, but no thoughts came to their minds to shoot at the UFO or to sound the alarm. At this time, they could hear a strong buzzing sound, like that of a generator, which emitted from inside the UFO. Suddenly, it shot downward a strong heat wave hitting the two soldiers. It came with great intensity, but no flame or beam of light was visible. The heat wave set their uniforms on fire and one of them, overcome by the intense heat, was knocked down unconscious. The other soldier, screaming in pain and fear, threw himself on the floor and crawled under a canyon for shelter. The cries awoke the garrison, but before any of the soldiers could respond to the area, all of the lights and electricity went out. Only a moderate heat penetrated the interior of the fort, but this, along with total darkness, was enough to cause panic. After three minutes or so, the heat subsided and moments later, the electricity came back on. Some soldiers came out running to their battle stations and many reported seeing the bright UFO moving away and disappearing up high in the night sky. The two men, in shock, were brought into the fort with first and 2nd degree burns on more than 10% of their bodies and received medical treatment. Next, the commander of the fort sent an urgent message to the headquarters of the Brazilian Army. Shortly thereafter, the Brazilian Air Force was put on full alert and patrolled the area. After the incident, the fort is closed and put under investigation by the Brazilian government. Since the United States was known to possess more knowledge about UFOs, high-ranking Brazilian authorities requested assistance from the American Embassy in their investigations. Almost immediately, officers of the Brazilian Army and U.S. Air Force flew to the fort, accompanied by researchers from the Brazilian Air Force. The result of the investigation was not made public. The sentries were burned still in serious condition, but were able to talk from time to time. After hearing their description of the incident, with details of the approach of the UFO and the alien heat, left the researchers wondering why the guards were attacked. The case of Fort Itaipu was kept secret for a long time and yet, the episode continues to this day without an explanation. NOTE: The above image is a rendering.

I was watching television and I heard something outside on the porch deck. I thought maybe there was somebody outside. So I walked slowly over to the back door leading to the deck and checked to see if it was locked. It wasn’t so I locked it. I then sat on the couch to look out the row of windows to see if someone was on the deck outside and then I looked to see if somebody was in the yard behind our house. All of a sudden a beam of circular light appears 6 feet away from me onto the deck. It was about 1 foot in diameter. The beam was not like a flashlight or a dull porch light. It was bright white almost too bright I couldn’t even see the color of the deck anymore. I watched one of our cats run around one of the lights as if it was scared. Then another light appeared exactly the same as the first, the second beam of white light appeared about 3-4 feet from the first beam of light. They both were stationary, I just stared and I had no clue what these lights were, because I knew they were different than any lights I had ever seen. So I started looking up and the lights were coming from darkness in the sky right above the house. I knew what I was seeing was not possible or was very rare to ever happen, and then the thought of aliens and UFO popped in my head. I tried my best to study the beam of light and how it could be so perfect and straight. It was as if the light came from its source and then there was no trace of it leading to the circle itself but there it was a circular beam of white light. I watched the first light disappear, and after that I ran away from the windows. Now that I think about it I have a theory of what this possibly was. What if there was aliens visiting earth and the beams were there to pick them up to beam or materialize the aliens back to the ship. The cat was scared so maybe the cat sensed or saw the aliens they could have been invisible and beamed up to the UFO. Just like in Star Trek how the people would stand on the white circle to be beamed down to the surface of a planet. NOTE: The above image is a rendering.

In response to an earlier email requesting UFO information during the Vietnam conflict, I’m placing my father’s experience during this time at the end of this email. My Dad was stationed in Thailand but flying missions in and out of Vietnam during the conflict. On one occasion he was flying a mission over Laos when he encountered the UFO. The following is as he told it to me. He also did a drawing of the craft which I have with my other photos regarding this anomaly. The phenomenon seems to run in our family covering at least three generations so far:There was an incident in 1967 involving my father. He was a full Colonel at the time and a veteran pilot of WWII as well as the Asian military conflict. He was flying a mission over Laos when he was approached by a UFO. He said he was flying a C130 at 25,000 feet in a 70 mile orbit, (fly 70 miles, make a turn, and fly back, staying parallel to the equator), when the object approached. He said he normally sat on the left but, on this occasion, and he didn’t know why, he was on the right. The co-pilot on the left is the one who first noticed it and said, “Hey, Ed. What’s that?” At this point my father looked in the direction the co-pilot was pointing. His description of the incident is that it was metal colored, shaped like the hull or prow of a boat, and that it was flat on top as if it had been chopped off.

There were no windows so they couldn’t see who or what was piloting it. There were no visible lights but that wouldn’t have been apparent anyway as it was a perfectly clear day. It came directly at his plane and “scared the hell out of” him. Duration was only a few seconds as they were traveling at a speed of about 350 mph and the craft was traveling at an unknown speed. He also stated it passed within a few feet below his aircraft but no mention was made of whether or not there was any turbulence and I didn’t think to ask at the time. I did ask if he was debriefed and what took place on the ground since it had been seen on radar. He said the co-pilot suddenly changed his mind and said he saw nothing. People in the military are afraid to report such things as it would go into their Ers, (Efficiency Ratings), and would affect their ability to get promotions. NOTE: The above image is a rendering.

A Merseyside family begged the Government for help, claiming they were being terrorized by aliens. Their sightings of lights above their home are among the UFO files revealed this week. The Ministry of Defence released thousands of reports of extra-terrestrial objects made to its UFO desk. Among the previously top-secret documents was the tale of a Kirkby family desperate for help after a string of UFO sightings near their home. Turning to the Government for help, the family revealed: “We saw three bright objects flying in the same direction near our home. “They hovered for around five minutes before ascending straight up into the sky. Bright orange and strangely shaped, changing colours as we zoomed in, green, yellow, white, orange etc.” The apparent visit occurred three times on October 26, 2009, leaving the family desperate for help. They pleaded: “Can you please tell us what these things are as my children are terrified that they are aliens; my son has seen these on two other occasions and is very worried. I have video footage if you require it.” The MoD responded to the request by saying they only investigate sightings “where there is evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom from an external source, and to date no UFO report has revealed such evidence.” The reports released by the MoD yesterday were the last batch of sightings sent to its UFO Desk before it closed in 2009, and cover the period from late 2007 to the department’s closure. It was closed after the MoD decided “investigations into UFO sightings, even from more reliable sources, serve no useful purpose and merely divert air defence specialists from their primary tasks.” But Merseyside UFO expert Pat Regan argued the UFO Desk’s closure was a decision that left British airspace vulnerable to attack and witnesses forced to rely on the media and other experts to investigate their fears. He said: “I think it leaves us wide open. I have always said 95% of sightings can be passed off with mundane explanations – fair enough. “But there’s possibly 5% that remain unexplained. It is something going through our sovereign airspace and the MoD are washing their hands of it.” Mr. Regan, from Southport, added: “A few years back Liverpool was a bit of a hotspot, it was buzzing. We noticed that large bodies of water such as the Mersey and Ribble Estuary always seem to attract UFO interest for whatever reason. There are all sorts of outlandish theories – some they are fuelling up, other people are saying they are testing drones.” The Kirkby sighting was one of many in Merseyside that year. Back in May 2009 dozens of people reported glowing lights moving across the Merseyside sky, with sightings recorded from Mossley Hill to Southport. In 2008 reports of an alien spacecraft over Wallasey town hall and UFOs over Liverpool were included in Government UFO files. NOTE: The above image is a rendering.

Investigator Evelyn Galson writes, “On February 5, 2004, George Filer and I went to talk to Ann Francis, and investigate more about her experiences. She was open and friendly and seemed very sincere. She revealed to us many things that her family had been experiencing. Ann Francis has had some college, she was also a member of Mensa for very high IQs. The society welcomes people from different walks of life whose IQ is in the top 2 % of the population. She left college and ended her studies because she wanted to get married, but is now planning to return and take classes in physics. When she was a young child she lived in Pennsville, N.J. on a dead end road surrounded by woods and a swamp. She was told never to go into the woods by her Mom. When she was three years old, she was taken out through the window of her bedroom by two beings. These beings looked like Pebbles and Bamm Bamm from the cartoon called The Flintstones. She was taken high above the trees, down below she saw a round ship on the ground with an opened hatch. Standing in the open hatch she saw a tall Gray with long arms and legs. She had, also, seen another ship just above the ship that was on the ground, but high in the sky. As she watched she saw trucks with canvas tops coming down the road she lived on. The beings that had her changed their appearance, they were now small Grays. They kept her just below tree level moving her in and out as if to hide her, they didn’t want her to be seen. She doesn’t know what happened in between this time period, it is a little unclear. The next thing she remembers is being dropped from above and falling onto her bed. (As an adult she realized the trucks were military vehicles.) When she was a young girl she had a game she played with her sister. She had the ability to locate people if she concentrated on them. Her sister would go in her room and Ann could tell her exactly were she was in the room at different times. This really made her sister nervous, because she couldn’t understand how she was doing it. Ann didn’t know how she did it either, just that she was able to do it. Ann’s grandparents lived in Glassboro, N.J. and she remembers playing in the backyard with neighborhood children and seeing small triangular shaped flying objects with lights and buttons on them and two handles on the front. She remembers that the children could fly and ride on them. They were young, so they didn’t question their ability to fly or where they came from.

NEW YORK – When Ann was older she was still having experiences while living in New York, she was taken up into a ship and was told by gray aliens to remember what she was seeing. Looking out the window of their ship, she could see into the windows of a huge craft that was right next to them and she could see people and Grays.

On another day, as she was walking in the city and passed a store window with a photo of Whitley Strieber, the author of “Communion,” she became very upset because she knew him, and remembers seeing him on one of the ships when she was taken. She wrote to him and told him about it. She said that she has seen humans on ships and they were working with the aliens. She remembers being taken to a desert like place in a valley, with Pueblo Indian type buildings. On the inside there were four sets of four cubic areas, the walls could close, but there was no ceiling on top of these cubic areas. There was a bed and a sink and a place to put things. She was shown a dining hall and bathrooms for men and another for women. The complex appeared to be a training base where people were being taught by the aliens. She remembers sitting at a curved panel, it had lights and small knobs on it. There was an oval object in the panel which she would place her hand on and move it around apparently learning to fly their craft. She knew this place was a Training Camp, and she was being trained as were the others but she didn’t know exactly what she was being trained for. She remembers hearing in her mind a comment by a Gray, that “They are training well.”

KENS NOTE: I started investigating for George Filer and MUFON in 2006. We have had a couple more alien abduction cases in the south Jersey area. One in Glassboro and one in Camden New Jersey. There are sincere people who have had a very strange experience. Dealing with the experience is the hardest part. It seems that talking about it has helped in many ways. Sometimes you are afraid to open up Pandoras box but sometimes it has to be done. I applaud the witnesses who have had the courage to come forth with their abduction experiences. NOTE: The above image is a rendering.

Maybe around midnight my mom and I were coming home from a friends house, on the back roads, when I saw what I thought was an airplane flying very low and coming toward us. As I looked on I noticed it was way too big to be a plane and it was blue. We were close to the house when we noticed that it was directly over our house. I was so frightened I was shaking internally. When we pulled into our driveway and parked I jumped out of the car and ran inside, mom following. It was so quiet and the thing was RIGHT OVER OUR HOUSE. It was probably 500 feet or so above it . It was so quiet and my mom and I didn’t know what to do. I think I was scaring her because I was so scared, so we actually turned all of the lights off and laid in bed together holding each other with the covers over our heads. Honestly I was frightened of what I would see and what that might mean. I could not tell you what happened next. I don’t remember anything after we jumped into bed. Also, I did not see it leave because it was above our house when we went inside and did not go back out until morning. We figured we would see something in the papers the next day, it was not. We looked every day for a week or more but no news about it was reported. I have thought about this almost every week since it happened as has my mom. I had not spoke of this to too many people. I think because it frightened me on some level that is hard to explain. I am ready to talk about it now though, to someone who won’t just say ” Wow” or give me uneducated guesses of what I might have seen. It is time to get someone who has some knowledge on the subject to hear this story. Although this is not a very fancy, made-for-Hollywood story, it is true. There is the Reading Airport close by my old house, just for reference. NOTE: The above image is a rendering.

A witness in Clydebank, Scotland has reported sighting an alien craft dropping a probe, on 4 June 2013 at 9:05 PM. This report has been obtained from a testimony included in the database of UK UFO Sightings. The report was posted on 5 June, 2013. “I saw a plane take off from Glasgow Airport, from where I sit in the living room chair seeing the take-offs at this time of year is like a 5 – 10 minute occurrence.” Right then I saw what looked like something black falling off the plane; it went downwards then turned and straightened out level. At that point I considered that perhaps it had been behind the plane at an angle to which my vision of it was obscured. At this point I said “what the hell is that?” I pointed it out to my GF and told her to keep an eye on it as I grabbed my binoculars. On looking through the binoculars I could clearly see it was no plane or copter; this thing was black and it had the classic saucer silhouette, it was difficult to keep it steady in the binoculars as it seemed to move at first very smoothly; then was more like random jumping and floating. She quickly located it and said, “oh yes I see it that’s weird,” then she said “it seems to be hollow in the middle.” The best way I could describe it was to say that it looked like a car tire inner tube. The thing was traveling in the opposite direction from the plane at this point towards the west. We kept watching it through the binoculars until it was basically a dot then finally disappeared. Also to note as it was moving it gave off bursts of green-yellow light as it was moving not constantly but as if it did this as it was using power to push itself along. This came from the direction it was traveling toward the west. NOTE: The above image is a rendering.

I was coming home from work it was about 1 am. I turned into my driveway and my house is a half mile off main road. Driving down my road, I noticed a light in my rearview mirror. I thought it was newly installed street lights but then the light started rising up too high to be a street light. I stopped my van got out and watched as several other lights begin to rise up from the ground level. They started moving in my direction at 40-50 feet high. They came within 200 ft.from me and I got back in my van and raced down my dirt road to my house. When I got out of the van I saw them coming. I watched them until they stopped overhead and hovered at tree top level. Unnerved, I got back in my van and drove like hell away from there back down my dirt road to the main road. In a panicked state, I drove to my friends house about 3 miles away but he wasn’t home. Driving back to my house there was a orange dodge ramcharger driving like a bat out of hell coming from the direction of my house. As I rounded the curve I saw the lights over the main road. The guy in the ramcharger must have seen them too. Driving about 80 mph I drove under the lights and back to my house. As I drove under the lights they started following me. When I got back to my house I could see them coming. When they came over my property, I went in the house and got my guns and came back out. They were hovering over me no more than 50 ft. I could have thrown a rock and hit them. There were 7 white orbs about 10-12 ft. wide. I raised my .22 rifle with a scope and was going to shoot but when I looked thru the scope to shoot, I could see right thru them, and see the stars behind them. As I was ready to pull the trigger, a very strong calming feeling washed over me and I felt at peace like nothing I’ve ever felt. I propped my gun against a light pole I was standing by and just watched them for what felt like 10 min. They started leaving, heading in a line towards the full moon. I watched until they were out of sight. When I went back inside my house I looked at the clock and it was 4:30 am. I know what I seen could not have taken more than 45 min to an hour. I can’t explain the missing time…. NOTE: The above image is a rendering.

This was around 1961 in North Hampton New Hampshire. I was with my cousin walking towards my aunts house (an old schoolhouse across the street from a cemetery.) We were at the edge of the driveway, it was dusk, we looked up and saw a grey lead metallic colored disc shaped object right over our heads. Next thing we were walking into the house and had lost an hour in time. I dont know how I even new this. Years later I saw my cousin (we had lost contact for 30 something years) and reminded her of the event. She remembered it but not me being there with her. She said it happened several times to her but not with me. I remember reading the Barney and Betty Hill account in Life Magazine in later years that took place in Exeter, NH, A town close to my encounter. I used to stay in at my Aunts when I was young. I used to have nightmares every night and my aunt and uncle would tell me I was screaming. I said it was coming to get me. Not sure what this means. As a child I used to hear a pulsating noise coming to my window at night and I would hide under the covers until the noise would fade away. If it was real the whole neighborhood would have been up and outside. My brother said he saw a UFO coming in his window in the next bedroom. He doesn’t remember any of it today. I still remember it because it happened on occasion in the house I grew up in. I used to get really bad nosebleeds. Ive always felt I may have been abducted. My next door neighbor used to tell my mom she saw UFOs in the sky. Anyhow, every so often I think about it and when I see shows on tv it brings me back. I think Ive read every book about UFOs and sometimes wish I didn’t know anything about them. But the fact remains that I did see that one in New Hampshire close up and will never forget what it looked like or how it affected me. Okay, so Im rambling. I am watching Alien mysteries and it made me come here and unload some memories. NOTE: The above image is a rendering

I was in my backyard laying on my back in a screen-sided tent texting on my phone. I noticed the object when I looked away from my phone and saw it silently making its way southeast overhead. I wasn’t sure what I was seeing when I first saw it because I knew right away it was unlike any aircraft I have ever seen. It was rectangular in shape and a silver-ish gray in color. It had red, green, and white lights strobing around the entire craft in a counter clockwise pattern. At first I thought it was flying south but as I watched it I noticed it was heading in a more southeast direction. It was going at what seemed to be a constant and relaxed speed, a bit slower than planes usually fly but not by much. A few times it looked as if it turned slightly transparent or invisible but the lights stayed the same, it was under cloud cover so I don’t think clouds were the culprit. It was completely silent and any plane or jet flying that low would have made noise. I felt calm and intrigued as I watched it. It certainly didn’t seem like anything to be afraid of. I was going to get a video of it but the camera on my phone is horrible and wouldn’t have picked it up. I sat and watched it disappear as it flew out of sight. I sat there for a moment and questioned what I saw and came to the conclusion that it was something rather unusual. I lost sight of it because where I live there are a lot of trees and houses and I couldn’t see past them. NOTE: The above image is a rendering.

At that time I lived in the Longneck area of Millsboro, Delaware within view of the Indian River. Directly across the street was a large swampy wildlife preserve with the river directly beyond. The swampy area contained water deep enough for a kayak, and during a heavy rain even developed white caps. Really a lovely view from our third story deck. I often liked to go out on the deck to watch the stars. After living close to Philadelphia for so many years, complete darkness to observe the stars was a joy. This particular night I was looking at the stars when suddenly, and I do mean suddenly, a beam of light came out of the night sky and shone on the swamp directly in front of me. One second no light, the next a bright white light. Our complex was primarily owned by summer folk and they hadn’t arrived yet, usually after Memorial Day they would descend like locusts. Therefore, there were no other townhouses occupied at that time on our street. We were one of the few year-round residents, hence total darkness. There was absolutely no sound and no sight of where the light was coming from. The light covered an area of approximately thirty feet in circumference, coming from an elevation of approximately 200 feet, and was perhaps 100 feet or more in front of me. I think I was in disbelief for quite a while, then in awe, then wanting to call my husband two stories below to come look, but afraid if I turned away it would be gone. So I stood tranfixed for about 20 minutes and the light never changed its position. Then it was gone, like someone had turned off a switch. Still no sound. My immediate thought was I had a UFO experience, and I still believe that. I don’t tell too many people about it though. Don’t really want to get measured for a white jacket. I told my husband the next day and while he listened politely I could tell he thought Id lost it. However, that night it was back and I did call him to look. He was dumfounded. It only lasted perhaps ten minutes that night and I never saw it again. I have no evidence, only my experience which I will never forget. I was watching a program tonight about a woman who lived near Willow Grove, Pennsylvania in 2008, her sighting, and the ensuing MUFON investigation. It was the beam of light she described that caught my attention and compelled me to send MUFON the account of my experience. NOTE: The above image is a rendering.

While driving home, between Berryville and Eureka Springs, Arkansas, at around 9:30 in the evening on DEC. 15, 1977, I saw a very large wedge or triangular shaped UFO. It was flying fairly low in the sky, not far above the treetops, and was nearby, so I could see it well. It was moving quite slowly. The UFO had four white-to-amber spotlights, arranged in a square. There were also several red blinking lights. There were two rows of windows, with a pale greenish light emanating from them. I heard absolutely no sound coming from it. I watched it for several minutes, spellbound. Then this huge thing sort of folded up on itself (sort of like origami) very quickly. The compacted version of itself then zoomed north, toward the state line. I wrote down as many details as I could remember when I got home. The next morning I went to work at the Eureka Springs Times-Echo and told the owner, Bob Wheeler, what I had seen. At first he was incredulous, but soon the paper’s phones were ringing with reports from police, the sheriff’s office, and the radio station. I heard that Ira and Frances Whitney had sent it. I walked from the newspaper office down to their Gem Store, where I interviewed them. I also interviewed a local man named Tex Belt who had seen the UFO, called a Berryville police officer who had watched the UFO for quite awhile, Unfortunately, our weekly paper was pasted up and ready to go to print, so Bob made the decision to insert a small article rather than run a front page story. I gave UFO’s little thought prior to actually seeing this one. I saw this before popular movies such as Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and E.T. were released. Though some of the people I interviewed seemed to be afraid, my experience was one of awe and wonder. In fact, I stayed up for hours that night watching the sky, hoping the UFO would come back. NOTE: The above image is a rendering.

I was sitting outside one night reading. All of the sudden it felt as though…as though something was smothering me. I started to panic because I couldn’t breathe. I tried to scream but nothing came out. Then the edges of my vision became blurry and more and more of my vision started getting that way until it looked like I was looking through a screen of smoke. Suddenly I felt cold all over (and I not only live in Florida so that’s unusual, but I also never get cold) Then when my vision cleared I was in a room. The room was pure white with what I think was flourecent lights all over the place. I was laying on a hard surface. I saw movement off in the distance but I couldn’t make out who or what it was. All my fear was gone. I felt numb all over. I remember closing my eyes and not too long after I felt some one grab my wrist. I opened my eyes and there was what looked like a human female only taller then any one I’ve seen standing above me. Their skin was rough and cold and their eyes looked like they saw everything and knew everything. They took a sharp instrument and made a small slice in my hand. Then I felt something crawling up my arm. I couldn’t see it but I could feel it. It was heading for the cut. I wasn’t afraid. It was like I -wanted- it to happen. Then all of a sudden I couldn’t feel it any more. I saw more movement in the background and voices talking in a language I couldn’t understand (and I’m the kind of person who can tell you off in 133 different languages) Then something passed over my face and I think it had made me fall asleep or knocked me out or something. I then remember waking up on a hard white bed. I saw a few cages in the room with small animals in it (squirrels, rabbits etc…) They came to me and took my wrist in their hand again, and once again I felt something crawl up my arm then dig inside of the cut. Once again I heard murmers in another language then it sounded like they said it inside of my head but a soft voice whispered “We’re taking you home” Then there I was back in my yard my book laying next to me open and a cut on my palm that was no longer bleeding. When I looked up at the sky, I discovered that it was almost daylight. Since this event (almost a year ago) the person has experienced a sensitivity to bright lights and a feeling of being “disconnected” on occasions. Just 4 months ago the person also woke up one day with a “heart shaped” burn on the hand, but this caused no pain. There appears to have been no sighting of any UFO, but it does resemble other abductions in many ways. We would love to hear from anyone who has also had an experience like this. NOTE: The above image is a rendering. Special thanks to Billy Booth and www.ufocasebook.com

I’ve been interested in the Universe and physics for most of my life. I’ve spent many nights just gazing at the stars looking for unusual objects. I’ve seen hundreds of satellites moving slowly across the night sky. I’ve seen the space station as light reflected off of it from the sun as it moved across the sky. I used to see them more frequently living on a farm in Cross Plains, Texas. Now living in the city the lights keep me from seeing such a large number of stars and planets, but on some nights the visibility is good. On several occasions recently I’ve see what I initially thought was a satellite moving across the sky only to see it make a complete u turn and head the opposite direction and I’ve seen small dimly lit objects moving in different directions across the night sky changing speeds but nothing I could say for sure it was a UFO. Last night I was having a hard time sleeping, so at 4:00 am I got up and went out to the front porch, it was a good clear night. When I first stepped outside I look across the street toward the Western Sky where I frequently see bright planets and stars, but when I looked up this time I immediately saw this very bright circular object, it was a bright as a car head lamp at one block away. It didn’t cast a beam, it glowed brightly. I first thought to myself wow that is the brightest planet I’ve ever seen, not even thinking about UFOs. As I stood there for a few seconds it started moving away from me, so I sort of ran toward the road to get a better view. As I did this, the light started to dim until all that was left was a round transparent sphere. It looked like a clear glass ball in the sky. As it kept moving away it slowly disappeared out of sight. I actually stood there for a few minutes with my mouth wide open staring at the sky. This was like nothing I’ve seen before. it was big and bright and made no sound. I didn’t see any air traffic around for several minutes. I know the patterns the planes take as they approach the airports or take off. I also see fighter jets as they take off from Carswell, they usually fly very high once they get this far. This object was within our atmosphere. Hard to tell how high but to guess 5,000 ft or less. At that height I would guess it was 300 feet in diameter. It emitted its own light, not a reflection. NOTE: The above image is a rendering.

Of all the UFO accounts in the Bible, the one mentioned most often is Ezekiel’s Wheel. One of the passages reads: “This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like chrysolite, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel.” (Ezekiel 1:16) The following is an analysis of Ezekiel chapter one that is based on the work of NASA engineer Josef Blumrich. Of all the UFO accounts in the Bible, the one that I hear mentioned most often is Ezekiel’s Wheel. Many people claim that Ezekiel clearly describes a UFO in the following passage: Ezekiel 1:16 (NIV) This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like chrysolite, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. So I thought about this. What is the craft shown above? It still seems rather mystical looking, and even if it is a spacecraft, it really doesn’t make the story told in the book of Ezekiel any clearer. The rest of his narrative still seems pretty confusing to me. While I was wondering about all of this, a friend passed on a book written by NASA engineer Josef F. Blumrich entitled The Spaceships of Ezekiel. This book concludes that the passage shown above wasn’t the whole story. Blumrich agrees that the “wheel within a wheel” was extraterrestrial, but he goes one step further and claims that it only describes a small part of the craft. According to Blumrich, the whole chapter was a detailed description of an encounter with an UFO. Even the story behind the book is very interesting. Blumrich notes that he began researching the topic in response to Erich von Daniken’s book Chariots of the Gods. In the forward to his book, Blumrich states that he “began to read von Daniken with the condescending attitude of someone who knows beforehand that the conclusions presented can by no means be correct.” In otherwords, he thought von Daniken was full of it and was going to set out to prove it scientifically. What he found, after an extensive amount of research from an engineering point of view, was just the opposite. He went from an extreme skeptic to becoming convinced that the book of Ezekiel was a real accurate and detailed account of an encounter with extraterrestrial visitors. Very interesting coming from a person who is not a religious zealot by any means and is about as far as you can get from a gullible person who might be prone to jump to conclusions. Ezekiel 1:4 (NIV) I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north–an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was that of a man. KENS NOTE: Check out the full account and analysis by www.ufoevidence.org. Incredible information. You can also GOOGLE ” Ezekiel’s wheel “.

Our whole family’s close encounter with a UFO at approximately 7 pm back in February of 1969, in East Canaan Connecticut. My recollection of the event is as follows. We and my Mother, Father, sister and myself were heading North up our driveway in our car. We got about halfway up our drive when a bright multi colored object about 60 feet in diameter appeared in front of us at about 500 yards in front of our car we were facing in a North Direction. It hovered at about 500 feet above ground for about 45 seconds above a tree line that was across Route 44 at the top of our driveway. The craft made a humming type of sound then the craft elevated in a bright green flash and disappeared in a North Westerly direction. The night was very crisp, clear and very very cold and after the craft disappeared we agreed NOT to say anything about this event. The craft itself was greyish silver in appearance and resembled a childs antique spinning top. It was about 60 feet wide and about 20-40 feet tall and it had circular pulsating lights in the middle of the craft. There were also small portal type windows above the circulating lights and the lights seemed to rotate in a clockwise motion, then reverse direction to a counter clockwise motion. That same year in September about 4 miles away in Ashley Falls Massachusetts in Berkshire County one of the worlds most scrutinized and studied UFO abduction cases to date took place as well. Up until 1 week ago after seeing a new UFO show on The Science Chanel about that abduction case in Ashley Falls Mass, I had no idea this event and several others like it involving the same individuals as the first Ashley Falls Mass sighting in that area even occurred. I thought I and my family were the only ones who saw any type of UFO and that there was no other UFO activity in that surrounding area at very close range. We saw this craft at less than 500 yards away at about 500 feet above ground hovering for almost 1 minute. Our family agreed never to speak about this event minutes after it happened and for all intents and purposes none of us ever did until now. I have been seeking answers as to why 1 week after our sighting I had a recurring 3 year nightmare/dream. I post this interview so that you all may listen to this and possibly if you yourself had an event you might come forward and speak of it with someone or share it. I will be seeking council with a world renowned UFO abduction hypnotist and I myself will be hypnotized and hope to find out why my dreams happened over and over and what happened after the nightmare and dream state paralysis ended and my memory faded each time. I also taped this interview as this is the first time in over 40 years I have actually talked with my mother about our sighting and wanted to confer with her and possibly gain some new insight or possibly remember parts of the event that were forgotten in my memory. This event was real and it completely changed/ altered my mind and it is my hope, that with all I have been through with relation to this event as recently as 2011, to gain some sense of WHY !!! NOTE: The above image is a rendering.

BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE SCRAMBLES JET’S TO INTERCEPT STRANGE RADAR BLIPS

MAY 19,1986

As many as twenty UFOs were seen and tracked by ground radar and at least six airplanes during the night of May 19, 1986 over several states in southeastern Brazil. Unidentified radar returns were tracked by airports in São Paulo and the Integrated Air Defense & Air Traffic Control Center (CINDACTA) in Brasilia.

Two F-5E and three Mirage jet fighters were scrambled from Santa Cruz AFB in Sao Paulo State, and Anápolis AFB in Goias State. The case was discussed openly by high ranking government officials. It was first reported by Colonel (Ret.) Ozires Silva, president of the state-owned oil company Petrobrás, who was flying on an executive Xingu jet, when he and the pilot saw and pursued unidentified objects for about 25 minutes. The incident was covered widely in the Brazilian media, leading to a press conference at the Ministry of Aeronautics in Brasilia on May 23, with air traffic controllers and air force pilots involved in the scramble mission. The Minister of Aeronautics, Brigadier General Otávio Moreira Lima, was very outspoken: “Between 20:00 hrs. (5/19) and 01:00 hrs. (5/20) at least 20 objects were detected by Brazilian radars. They saturated the radars and interrupted traffic in the area. Each time that radar detected unidentified objects, fighters took off for intercept. Radar detects only solid metallic bodies and heavy (mass) clouds. There were no clouds nor conventional aircraft in the region.

The sky was clear. Radar doesn’t have optical illusions. “We can only give technical explanations and we don’t have them. It would be very difficult for us to talk about the hypothesis of an electronic war. It’s very remote and it’s not the case here in Brazil. It’s fantastic. The signals on the radar were quite clear. The Minister also announced that a commission would study the incident. Air Force Major Ney Cerqueira, in charge of the Air Defense Operations Center (CODA), was equally candid: “We don’t have technical operational conditions to explain it. The appearance and disappearance of these objects on the radar screens are unexplained. They are Unidentified Aerial Movements… The technical instruments used for the identification of the lights had problems in registering them. CODA activated two F-5E and three Mirages to identify the objects. One F-5E and one Mirage remained grounded on alert. A similar case occurred four years ago [the Commander Brito VASP airliner radar-visual incident in 1982]. The lights were moving at a speed ranging between 250 and 1,500 km./hr. [150 to 1,000 mph] The Air Force has not closed the case. NOTE: The above image is a rendering.

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Researchers at the University of Minnesota have done away with all that tedious joystick work by developing a mind-controlled quadcopter. It may seem like the top item of next year’s Christmas list, but it also serves a very practical purpose. Using a skullcap fitted with a Brain Computer Interface (BCI), the University’s College of Science and Engineering hopes to develop ways for people suffering from paralysis or neurodegenerative diseases to employ thought to control wheelchairs and other devices. The aim of the Minnesota team led by biomedical engineering professor Bin He is to develop ways of developing thought-control devices that can work reliably at high speed, without the need for surgical implantation.

This means extensive real-world testing and, though spectacular, flying is actually a very simple activity in a three-dimensional environment without the complications of obstacles and terrain that a ground vehicle encounters. That’s one of the reason why it was possible to make a plane that flies on autopilot decades before a self-driving car was even considered. So for developing mind-controlled devices, something like a quadcopter is an inexpensive option because is it relatively easy to control the variables of the experiment. The quadcopter used was an AR Drone 1.0 built by Parrot SA of Paris, France. It is configured to fly with forward motion pre-set and the operator is able to use mind control to make it go left or right or up and down. A video camera mounted on the front provides a field of view pointing directly forward, an arrangement designed to promote a sense of embodiment in the operator and enhance feedback. The key feature of the mind-controlled quadcopter was the non-invasive BCI skullcap. Invasive BCI are used for controlling robot limbs and have shown some success, but embedding these are a major surgical undertaking with risks of infection and rejection. Non-invasive versions can avoid these problems we’ve already seen projects that use this approach for controlling wheelchairs and robotic appendages. Even if the ultimate goal is an implanted interface, a non-invasive BCI can help in the process by allowing the patient to become familiar with a BCI before the procedure, especially for a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, where early implantation isn’t warranted.

KEN’S NOTE: Every once in a while I come across something truly amazing. Could this be a spin-off of reverse engineering of alien craft. Anything is possible these days.